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What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology that equips readers with the skills to analyze a wealth of classic morphological issues.

Provides a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas and perennial problems of morphology.
Familiarizes the reader with the importance of morphology as a subject of research.
Equips students with the skills to analyze a breadth of classic morphological issues through engaging narration and by direct example.
Includes detailed discussion of the complex morphology of one West African language, Kujamaat Joola.
features useful exercises at the end of each chapter.

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• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Thinking about Morphology and Morphological Analysis:
• 1 What is Morphology?
• 2 Morphemes
• 3 Morphology in Action
• 4 Foundational Beliefs
• 5 Introduction to Morphological Analysis
• 6 Summaryntroduction to Kujamaat Joolaxercises
• Words and Lexemes:
• 1 What is a Word?
• 2 Empirical Tests for Wordhood
• 3 Types of Words
• 4 Inflection vs. Derivation
• 5 Two Approaches to Morphology: Item-and-Arrangement, Item-and-Process
• 6 The Lexicon
• 7 Summaryujamaat Joola Noun Classesxercises
• Morphology and Phonology:
• 1 Allomorphs
• 2 Prosodic Morphology
• 3 Primary and Secondary Affixes
• 4 Linguistic Exaptation, Leveling, and Analogy
• 5 Morphophonology and Secret Languages
• 6 Summaryujamaat Joola Morphophonologyxercises
• Derivation and the Lexicon:
• 1 The Saussurean Sign
• 2 Motivation and Compositionality
• 3 Derivation and Structure
• 4 Summaryerivation in Kujamaat Joolaxercises
• Derivation and Semantics:
• 1 The Polysemy Problem
• 2 The Semantics of Derived Lexemes
• 3 Summaryerivation and verbs in Kujamaat Joolaxercises
• Inflection:
• 1 What is Inflection?
• 2 Inflection vs. Derivation
• 3 Inventory of Inflectional Morphology Types
• 4 Syncretism
• 5 Typology
• 6 Summarygreement in Kujamaat Joolaxercises
• Morphology and Syntax:
• 1 Morphological vs
• Syntactic Inflection
• 2 Structural constraints on morphological inflection
• 3 Inflection and Universal Grammar
• 4 Grammatical function changing
• 5 Summaryujamaat Joola verb morphologybrief survey of Kujamaat Joola syntaxxercises
• Morphological Productivity:
• 1 What is morphological productivity?
• 2 Productivity and structure: Negative prefixes in English
• 3 Degrees of productivity
• 4 Salience and productivity
• 5 Testing productivity
• 6 Conclusionxerciseslossaryeferencesndex

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Mark Aronoff is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and served as editor of the journal Language from 1995 to 2000. He is co-editor, with Janie Rees-Miller, of The Handbook of Linguistics (Blackwell 2001).

Kirsten Fudeman is Professor of Linguistics and French at Ithaca College, and has published articles on morphology, syntax, and historical Romance linguistics.